Vida y forma: Autobiografía de Richard Neutra -Language: spanish
Language: Spanish
Published by Atara Press, 2013
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- Title
- Vida y forma: Autobiografía de Richard Neutra -Language: spanish
- Author
- Richard Neutra
- Publisher
- Atara Press
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- Spanish
- ISBN 10
- 0982225180
- ISBN 13
- 9780982225189
Puesto que la siguió durante toda su vida, Richard Neutra (1892-1970) debía apreciar la máxima de Sócrates, el gran filósofo griego: "una vida sin examen no tiene objeto de vivirla para el hombre". En sus libros, en sus conferencias, incluso en sus conversaciones informales, Neutra reexaminaba constantemente no solo su propia vida, sino también la vida de los demás - presente y pasada - y el mundo, natural y humano, en que habitaban. En ningún otro lugar se hace esto más patente que en "Vida y forma", su autobiografía publicada por primera vez en 1962, y que ahora, tras años de estar descatalogada, ha vuelto felizmente a la vida.
A diferencia de "Diseñar para sobrevivir" (1954), su magnífica colección de ensayos, profunda y filosófica, Neutra opta por otro enfoque en "Vida y forma", y adopta un acercamiento más ligero y desenfadado. Parece como si Neutra, normalmente tan serio y vehemente, se diera aquí permiso para mostrar su irónico sentido del humor y para sondear determinadas áreas de su experiencia personal que nunca antes había examinado tan de cerca. Esto incluye recuerdos hasta ese momento no contados de sus padres y hermanos, de su infancia, y de su educación en la Viena imperial, así como de sus duras experiencias como oficial de la artillería austríaca en la Primera Guerra Mundial y de los inicios de su conciencia arquitectónica en respuesta a las obras de Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, Erich Mendelsohn, Louis Sullivan y Frank Lloyd Wright.
Al igual que las autobiografías de Sullivan y Wright, "Vida y forma" se concentra en los primeros años de Neutra, tanto en Europa como en América. Como es natural relata en sus memorias los encargos más conocidos como la Lovell Health House (1929), su propia Van der Leeuw Research House (1933) y la casa Von Sternberg, pero también se detiene en algunas construcciones mucho menos famosas como la pequeña y casi ignorada casa Mosk (1933). "Vida y forma" también confirma la obsesión de Neutra con el paso del tiempo y su firme resolución de no perderlo nunca.
Como Sullivan y Wright, Neutra evita escribir una crónica de los hechos, para proponer más bien, a sus setenta años, una meditación sobre los aspectos de su vida y su trabajo que retrospectivamente le parecen más interesantes y significantes. En vez de "incluirlo todo", prefiere presentar un relato honesto de la memoria de su vida. Al escribir mi propio libro "Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture" (Oxford University Press, 1982; Rizzoli Press, 2006), me basé en "Vida y forma" siempre que necesité presentar las experiencias de Neutra con su auténtica voz. Para las generaciones futuras de arquitectos, historiadores y lectores, es una gran noticia tener este libro disponible de nuevo.
- Thomas S. Hines, Profesor emérito de Histora y arquitectura, Universidad de California Los Ángeles
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